[Webwork-user] WebWork 0.5 - generic controls

[Rickard <ri...@jb...>]

WebWork 0.5 has been released, and is available for download from the
WebWork CVS and as a Zip file from the project homepage.

The major new addition from 0.4 is a bunch of extremely cool generic
form fields(Kudos to Maurice for this submission). They make it
EXTREMELY easy to create form fields, and they use a CSS stylesheet for
look&feel. There is also a new ActionFormSupport base class which should
be used by form actions. It adds a per-field error message handling
(i.e. you can specify that field "foo" has an error message "Foo was
bad").

How to use this is shown in the Form test, which includes all available
generic fields. The HelloWorld application has also been updated to use
this for the login and greeting construction forms. Very VERY nice.

You can of course add your own controls by copy/pasting/modiyfing the
existing ones.

I am so excited about this version that I can't express it in words!!!
:-))) Unless I am missing something WebWork seems to be ready to create
larger applications with. I think the next thing for me to do is to
start updating the EBS application to see if everything works as it
should.

As always, if you have any comments/bug reports/suggestions, let me
know.

regards,
  Rickard

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Rickard Öberg

Email: ri...@jb...